What do you think of LPG cars-liquid petroleum gas?
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a very novel idea, but it needs time to catch up
Here in Australia, there are a very large number of LPG cars. you can buy your car as LPG direct from the factory in some cases.
A lot of people retro-fit LPG and also run petrol. I think this is a bad solution, as you cannot tune your car to optimum. You have to balance between LPG and petrol performance.
If you have your car tuned for straigh gas, the performance difference is very minimal.
LPG is very proven and reliable.
honestly i dont like them because they really arent all that great, the cost of propane is rediculous in my book, and since you can not travel as far on propane as you can on gasoline or diesel its just not worth it, yes i hear the whole environmental impact arguement all the time from people but the truth is that no one has created a safer or more efficent fuel for vehicles period. gas and diesel will be around for a long time to come until a alternative fuel that will burn as well and as long and give the same amount of mileage per tank size. i also hear people say that this e85 ethonal is so great but it is still just as expensive as regular gasoline when you drive cross counrty and since most places dont have e85 it makes life hard for an someone with an e85 car, the infrastucture needed for an alternative fuel to be viable in the united states is not there and wont be until there is a fuel that is worth changing everything propane has been used in vehicles for long time yet they still make gasoline and diesel engines.
LPG was actually a popular conversion (at least in the midwest of the United States) back in the late 60s to mid 70s. On the farm I grew up on we had 2 grain trucks, 1 pickup truck and 2 small tractors that had been converted to run LPG. The overall result was good, power is comperable, MPG was not great, but at the time LPG was an eighth to a quarter the price of gas. The best overall thing is that LPG burns very very clean.
I had a Daihatsu truck converted to LPG in Australia in the late
70`s.
It also run on petrol but engine was tuned to LPG - only used
petrol until I found a LPG-filling station.
It worked very well and did not notice any loss of power.
It would have been unsuitable in an ordinary car as the LPGtank
would have taken all the space in the trunk.
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